Tuesday, 12 July 2011

LA SECONDE MORT PHILIP K. DICK


A few people asked, so here are scans of the Blade Runner article from Metal Hurlant issue 79, September 1982, plus a bonus article which appears to infer a Moebius / Blade Runner link - useless unless you speak french but if anyone does, let us know.












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7 comments:

  1. saihtaM13 July 2011 at 00:58

    I'm French and I'd like to say : don't bother to translate this article, this is pure crap. :)

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  2. Unknown13 July 2011 at 02:00

    I'm kinda disappointed now, haha. Any indication of what the feature is about basically? Is it publicity nonsense or an attempt at a critical review?

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  3. Jerry13 July 2011 at 04:50

    Philippe Manoeuvre (the writer) was pissed at Blade Runner for being what he considered a rip off of Humanoids/Métal Hurlant properties. Out of context, the article is pretty stupid but at the time, Manoeuvre was pissed at everything and his hatreds were so crazy that I used to have a lot of fun reading his stuf. His most famous article was a "review" of Ici Même, a book by Jacques Tardi.

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  4. Unknown13 July 2011 at 23:51

    Thanks Jerry, that makes sense - I know that Ridley Scott and Syd Mead were influenced by Metal Hurlant, Scott especially, going as far back as Alien (Moebius was actually on board to do character design at one point) - sounds like a fun read anyway!

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  5. Alex Nikolavitch14 July 2011 at 12:18

    Manoeuvre was relevant, at a time, to talk about rock n'roll.

    he should've stuck with rock n'roll. That piece proves he didn"t understand squat about cinema, and probably not much about Philip K. Dick.

    (and for your information, he's now anchorman on a french version of Pop Idol. just to say he's not even relevant on music anymore)

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  6. Alanqua16 July 2011 at 00:26

    Hi, I'm French too, I was surprised to read this Metal Hurlant article about Blade Runner. It is quite violent, narrow-minded, and totally focused on Dick's. It is obviously not objective and I'm questioning the pertinence of this critic. I've seen the movie lots of time, and I read also Dick's book. Both are different, ok, so what? This is the purpose of a cinematographic adaptation: to put the director'
    s originality, to be able to offer a "variation" from the book.
    I consider Philippe Manoeuvre as an "has-been", a "wanabee".
    Regards, Alain

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  7. Hubert de Lartigue19 July 2011 at 17:15

    I remember this issue. For me it was the beginning of the end of the magazine. So totally off the mood of this time..

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